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Saturday, November 4 celebrates the 2nd annual Gathering of Nations at the Bonita Museum & Cultural Center and the Bonita Sunnyside SD County Library. The gathering celebrates indigenous cultures, highlighting craftspeople, storytellers, food and educational resources held on traditional Kumeyaay lands. The museum and event will take place in the Greg Cox Civic Complex located at 4355 Bonita Road, in Bonita CA. 91902. The events are free and open to the public. The event will be opened by tribal elders and delegates and includes Kumeyaay Bird Singers. The cultural bird songs, of which there are 300 in the takut cycle, are a metaphor for life. On stage find presentations and regalia from Aztec Dancers, Mexi’cayotl Indio Cultural Center, and the “Eagle Spirit Dancers” Ben Hale dancers, presentation of powwow culture. Visiting tribal members from New Mexico. Visitors will find educational resources from Kumeyaay College’s Kosay Kumeyaay Market, Blackfeet displays with Chuck Jenson, and Kumeyaay tribal community of San Jose de la Zorra, Baja California, Mexico, basket weaver Aurelia Ojeda Melendrez. Aurelia is famous for her coiled rattlesnake basket patterns and Kumeyaay basket hats. Food at the event includes Lucy Hale’s Frybread stand, Taco El Pintor, and The Empanada Spot. Inside the museum, visitors can discover the history of the Sweetwater Valley as well as explore the elements of a new Kumeyaay permanent exhibition opening in 2024. The Bonita Museum & Cultural Center is currently gathering funding to create an exhibition about Kumeyaay past and present in the Sweetwater Valley. This exhibition will allow visitors to see and hear the Kumeyaay language including the names of places, objects and animals. The language will be spoken by members of Kumeyaay College's language department. The exhibition will be implemented by Kumeyaay College students with exhibition designer Michael Connolly of the Campo Band of Kumeyaay. The Bonita Museum & Cultural Center is located in the Sweetwater River Valley near ancient Kumeyaay village sites including the village of Apusquel. The Gathering of Nations is coordinated by the museum’s Indigenous Cultures Educator Heather Gallana. For more information about events, please find the museum online at Bonitahistoricalsociety.org. Sponsors for the event include the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation and DAR, Linnares Chapter. The Bonita Museum & Cultural Center, located in San Diego County, is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10:00am to 4:00pm. Information about the exhibition and programming can be found on the website www.bonitahistoricalsociety.org. The museum is located at 4355 Bonita Road, Bonita California. Exhibitions are free and open to the public.

A group of Black and Hispanic employees accuse Amazon and two contractors of failing to implement measures that could have stopped the harassment after several nooses were found.

People with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias can experience behavior and personality changes. Learn what those changes mean, and new ways to respond. This class is presented by local non-profit Alzheimer's San Diego and is designed for care partners. Pre-registration is recommended. Register at the ticket link, and learn more at www.alzsd.org/services/education.

An evacuation advisory for the tourist destination of Santa Catalina Island, 23 miles (37 kilometers) off the Southern California coast, urged residents and beachgoers to leave.

It’s all about the BUBBLES when Italian clown and actor Michele Cafaggi comes to town! Michele Cafaggi studied acting, circus arts, mime, clowning, and theatrical improvisation between Milan and Paris and has performed in research theater and company theater. But he found his true calling when he became the first artist in Italy to develop a giant bubble technique to create an entire theatrical show dedicated to soap bubbles. Since 1993 he has performed as a street and theater artist in Italy and across four continents and 20 countries, collaborating with theatres, youth aggregation centers, retirement homes, prisons, schools, kindergartens, and hospitals. Now it’s time for his giant bubbles to take over San Diego! *Part of The ConRAD Kids Series. 2 performance times; 10:00 AM & 11:30 AM*

The 23rd Annual Mira Mesa Street Fair will be held on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., for a day of fun for all ages on Camino Ruiz between Mira Mesa Boulevard and New Salem Street. Enjoy entertainment on two stages, international foods, children’s activities including a fun zone with inflatables and pony rides, booths by crafters, local businesses and non-profit groups, and other special attractions. Look through a solar telescope for a close-up view of the sun! Watch the U.S. Marines command their Explosive Ordinance Disposal robots. Learn about Mira Mesa past and present at the “big top” information tent with displays and volunteers from the Mira Mesa Town Council, Recreation Council, and Community Planning Group. For the full program, see https://www.miramesatowncouncil.org/mira-mesa-street-fair-2023-program/ View this event on Facebook / Instagram The Street Fair is presented by the Mira Mesa Town Council.

San Diego Gas & Electric is seeking federal investment tax credits for its energy storage projects which would represent millions in savings for its customers, it was announced Monday.

Third Sunday Craft is a monthly gathering of creative writers that fosters support, inspiration, and community. More than craft classes, Third Sunday Craft will help you construct and sustain a writing practice. New focus topics for each session will challenge writers to explore and expand their craft. Generative writing prompts will encourage you to grow and learn in exciting new ways. Sharing your work within a safe, supportive community will help you discover and strengthen your voice. Finally, with the goal of fostering supportive accountability, each session will conclude with a writer’s intentions for the month. November’s Focus: Gratitude and Light: Can stories convey emotions like gratitude? Can we infuse our writing with a sense of awe, wonder, and joy? Are there writers doing this now? (YES!) Come explore some wonderful examples of writers who will make you celebrate being alive and the rediscover what writing can offer the world!

We learn a lot when we enter the perspective other people and even objects of the natural and unnatural world. This class will discuss a series of persona poems…written in the voice of the “other”…in order to arrive at a new and deeper understanding of others’ experience. Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Gluck has an entire book, "The Wild Iris", in which the poems are all written in the voice of plants. The purpose of our session will be to practice entering into another’s experience and searching for a deeper meaning that we can apply to own lives. Both poets and prose writers can benefit from this experience.

This class will examine the history of the short poem beginning with fragments by Sappho, moving through Japanese short forms and up to contemporary poets who use the form. The main focus of our writing will look at Dickinson poems and her theories on the short form. We will discuss the effectiveness and purpose of short writing and using models, practice our own forms and pieces. This class will work well for both poets and prose writers, as time will be allotted to cover flash writing.